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20 Things We Can Do to Advance a Just and Sustainable Planet

On this Earth Day as the world is faced with great peril and promise, we all have a role in resisting and addressing challenges and optimizing on the many opportunities. In the context of reversal of voting rights and stolen democracies, profit driven development and reckless extraction and processing of fossil fuels, coupled with rampant consumerism, we are seeing more and more toxic communities, increased heat waves, wild fires, super storms and drought driven shifts in agricultural yields. This year Pope Francis is releasing an encyclical calling for action on climate change. In November, there is a meeting of the United Nations and civil society groups from all over the world convening in Paris for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties. People all over are building resistance to and repelling the progression of climate change and environmental injustice through advancing local economies on principles of cooperation and access through local food, transportation collectives, community owned solar, zero waste systems, green schools and more.

Below are some actions we can take, big and small, to be a part of this growing movement to educate and engage our communities, reclaim our voice and influence in decision making stations, grow local economies, and ensure that all have access to basic needs and upholding of all civil and human rights.

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"We must DISSENT from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away...We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership."
~ Thurgood Marshall #QOTD